Freyberg

I especially agree about bunkers. Perhaps camouflage could be purchased like foxholes and such. Lots of defensive assets - including AFVs, could be made invisible from medium distance by a RL defender. Having said that, that gun was fair game out in the open like that.

The fortifications are not free - it was probably a straight swap in terms of points, if not a loss to GaJ - a few shells are not such an expense, but those foxholes and wire were probably worth a squad or more in points.

Bill, you're the tactical guru - where would you have put that ATG ?

I've had good luck with 57s in terms of visibility (only) - they stay well hid. They don't have much punch though...

I'd love it if the game modeled the appearance of camouflaged defensive weapons. I was also a little surprised GaJ couldn't see Bill's infantry moving forward, they weren't crawling. I feel like mine get spotted pretty quick when they advance - I wonder how he does it. Is it because he uses pauses on the waypoints?

I feel like, in an attack/defend battle, assets like AT guns are a bit 'naked'. With a little preparation, they would be quite well camouflaged, and more difficult to spot, until they fired, than is modeled in the game. ...though I guess that gun was quite out in the open.

I thought that ammo figure on the left showed the ammo the crew were carrying. I have some Shermans firing light and that left hand figure isn't going down.

Can the Quad .50 fire to the side...?

Thanks very much to both of you for these very detailed and interesting AARs. I especially the information about how you set waypoints, pauses etc. I've read a lot of military history, but I don't always know how to translate historical tactics into game mechanics. The images you post are excellent. Absolutely brilliant. I followed the last battle you guys did, and I went back and read the Niscemi Highway AAR, which was also fascinating. It's a beautiful map, too.

I read that the Italians were said to have put up a very valiant doomed rearguard at El Alamein to cover Rommel's retreat.

Normandy and Italy are both awesome, but I'm also really looking forward to 'CMBB'x2

I seem to recall one could add a time delay to an already-prepared strike in CMBB

Having plotted an artillery strike, is it possible to adjust it without beginning again from scratch. For example, can one add extra time-delay, or is the only option to begin over...?

Thanks for that

BTW, both CMBN and CMFI are wonderful games. I used to love the old CM series - I went nuts on CMBB (especially), until I had to upgrade my Mac beyond the point they were playable. Many thanks for providing Mac versions of the new ones .

This is probably a silly question, but where in the ToE are the Panzer III and the M8 Armoured Car...? ~Freyberg